Category: Writing Reflections
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#WriteFridays Exercise 12
I logged in this morning to post my writing prompt, and realized I’ve been falling behind on participating in my own writing exercises. So, I’m going to put some extra effort in this week to start scheduling some more interviews, as well as posting some more exercise drafts. Where is that coffee…? This week’s exercise…
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#WriteFridays Exercise 10
I’m currently working with my first client for my writing coach business, Scribbler Coach, and so far it’s been a lot of fun. She is writing a novel based on the fictionalization of her life. Many times, when people tell me they want to write a novel based on their lives, I am a little…
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Short Story – Unsettling Hobbies
I finally sat down to write my own flash fiction contribution to Friday’s writing exercise. If you like, join us on Fridays for more writing prompts and sharing of the craft! The Appraisal The road in was long and winding, passing through fields stubbled with the last vestiges of the corn harvest upstate. The only…
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Things I’ve learned researching domestic violence…
Sometime in the middle of last year, I happened across a book offered in one of my review groups, and ended up requesting a copy of Who Am I? How My Daughter Taught Me To Let Go and Live Again (2014) by Megan Cyrulewski. In it, Megan tells the story of her long, drawn-out legal…
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#WriteFridays Exercise 6 – no – 7
For Exercise 6 7 (as Noah has pointed out multiple times, I need to include the Twitter exercise I put out the week I crashed my Web site) I decided to do something a little different. The following writing revision exercise takes a look at something you already have on paper, and focuses on one aspect of the…
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The author’s social media quadrivium – an online presence strategy.
An author friend of mine invited me to speak at an upcoming gathering of the local Probatio Pennae Writer’s Club, primarily on the topic of social media for authors. I’ve had a few other people ask me how I went about my own social media strategy, and so I thought the time was nigh to…
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#WriteFridays Exercise the Fifth…
In the past week, I’ve been on the road more often than not, commuting seven plus hours a day to make it to a Reserve temporary duty gig while still being able to come home to my sister’s house at night (she was watching my daughter.) Suffice it to say, I’ve been through more than…
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A new look for the Infamous Scribbler: Scribbler Coach!
I am currently working on setting up a Web page on this site for my new venture, but I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I want to introduce my new venture … Scribbler Coach! Artist Krist Neumann, a talented friend of mine, created the logo in the header above. Isn’t it awesome? (The logo, I…
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Telling stories beyond facsimiles…
A few days ago, I received a free eBook for an honest review, part of the Read It & Reap program through the Shut Up and Read GoodReads group. Part of the reason I asked for the book, other than the fact that it sounded interesting, was that one of the main characters was billed…
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#WriteFridays Exercise the Third…
This week, I’ve been busy reading and reviewing books for various online groups. There are a few I belong to on Goodreads, and promising a review is a great way to score free books. I was reading my way through one, and something was bothering me. Then, I read this article on differentiating characters, posted…
Rachel A. Brune 